Ill Bill, Sabac and Goretex had a great chemistry throughout that whole album and the guest verses (Beatnuts, Tariq etc) are perfect.
I wish Necro would just STFU and make beats...one of the worst rappers ever , and one of the most underrated producers ever. Dude laced that album beautifully.
& he's got beats for days. I have a folder with about 100 instrumentals of his...I used to drive around to it and just zone out. Ill try to upload it later this weekend.
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8. "Large Pro on the title track=HOLY FUCK!" In response to Reply # 0
That beat...man there's no words for that track, it's almost unfathomable how people still sleep on that man
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11. "Yeah, this album is fire. Delivers on all levels" In response to Reply # 0
"Drug Music," "Rock Stars," and "Strange Universe" are all my absolute shit. That some "pinnacle hip-hop of the early '00s" shit.
I miss these dudes as a crew too. I know Ill Bill likes doing his thing by running his own label, and him and Sabac are fully into La Coka Nostra, but I miss their chemistry with Goretex.
I also feel fortunate I got to see these cats perform back in '02, opening for The Beatnuts. Shit was live.
16. "It's wild man, that was such a great time" In response to Reply # 0
I remember chilling at Bill's crib when he had got the Premier beat. I mean fa real imagine that. Even if it wasn't one of his top shelf beats, he was just so amped to be writing to a Premier beat.
It's funny to think now about A-Trak on 'Cult Leader'. Yeah... A-Trak!! Dude was like eighteen at the time or some shit, fresh off the boat. But the circles were about all the elements of hip-hop so we were up on the DMC, knew who this kid was. Connected with his crew, because the promotion arm brought them through the city. And he was a head so *he* was giddy for the opportunity to do it like Bill was giddy about that Premier beat.
The studio sessions around that time were just crazy. So much fucking freestyling. There was this kid who's name I can't remember that was just sick with it. He was a fiend but at the same time he had so much style. So he was always setting off cyphers. Gortex would throw on a beat and all these cats would just be trading verses for hours.
I think it's funny though not surprising that some folk can't get with them lyrically. They're like the white Raekwon's. So much of their shit is inside jokes. I remember one time we were walking down the block and Bill was breaking down line for line meanings on shit. Just so much nuance in every noun and verb that it's pretty much impossible to get even if you were down with em.
Most of all though I just remember humble belief. Like I don't know how to express it The material obviously comes off as crack pot conspiratorial shit. The type of shit you expect cats trying to beat it over your head or berate you for disagreeing with. but that wasn't them at all. They were just presenting the shit that was real to them on the humble. If you got it you got it, if not fuck it. But if you tried to front.... you got it.
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